the move the fed - the fdic made tonight was to say, we re gonna ensure yo above that we re gonna make you hole. which has been huge for lots o small businesses, specifically in the start-up space. because here s what interesting or important about silicon valley bank. what s interesting is there an enormous concentration to th tech industry, the start-u role what got us here - this bank had about 40 billion dollars. once the pandemic hit, you saw that huge push into start-ups. that huge investment they ballooned to having deposits, almost 200 billion they took a bunch of that mone and invested it in mortgag backed securities an treasuries, which interest rates are going up. so the question right now is we ve made this move to help silicon valley bank s. tonight, you re doing it wit another bank at shut down. we re gonna see how they r gonna help if there is contagion if this makes its way across o the banks, which most likely i won t, this is different fro
represent them in congress i refugee who survived the horrors of a civil war someone who spent her childhoo in a refugee camp. someone who knows what it mean to have a shot at a better lif here in the united states. when you see the plans of the republican majority righ now and where they have pu their resources. and their time where they plan to over th next two years of this session what goes through your head? i am mortified. and, you know, really scared for the direction of our country as we look at the plan that the republican majority has put forth. we have also seen it wit republican leaders in florid and texas and virginia when they say they want to g after woke agenda.
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